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dc.contributor.authorLogue, Daviden
dc.contributor.authorArgent, Neilen
dc.contributor.authorWarren, Andrewen
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-01T15:34:00Z-
dc.date.issued2015-
dc.identifier.citationLocal Economy, 30(1), p. 119-138en
dc.identifier.issn1470-9325en
dc.identifier.issn0269-0942en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16871-
dc.description.abstractThe Gold Coast and Tweed coast region is an archetypal Australian high amenity coastal area. It is also home to a local surfboard manufacturing industry of international standing, with well over one hundred separate but frequently closely related firms located in this littoral zone. This paper explains the rise and enduring influence of the Gold Coast/Tweed surfboard manufacturing agglomeration through the conceptual lens of the new industrial districts literature. We explore the many multi-scalar challenges the local industry faces in order to remain viable in the longer term. Based on interviews with 19 active participants in the Gold Coast/Tweed surfboard and ancillary manufacturing industries during 2010, we find that a combination of high quality surf, an established surfing culture, local planning instruments, and ready accessibility to high quality material suppliers, have facilitated the emergence and subsequent evolution of the local surf industrial district. However, our research also finds this local cluster at a crossroad. International competition - exacerbated by Australia's high exchange rate and cheap local 'backyard producers' - threaten cluster members' already slim margins. The ongoing structural ageing of the cluster's chief operators, driven in large part by an inability to attract younger workers/entrepreneurs, is at least partly explained by the precarious and penurious nature of employment and pay in the sector. The highly individualistic and independent nature of most surfboard manufacturers - once a key feature of the cluster's 'industrial atmosphere' – has become something of a weakness with the industry unable to collectively agree on the creation of a formal government/peak industry organization to auspice accredited training and industry-specific lobbying.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltden
dc.relation.ispartofLocal Economyen
dc.titleWipeout? The Gold Coast and Tweed surfboard manufacturing cluster and local economic developmenten
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0269094214562730en
dc.subject.keywordsEconomic Geographyen
local.contributor.firstnameDaviden
local.contributor.firstnameNeilen
local.contributor.firstnameAndrewen
local.subject.for2008160401 Economic Geographyen
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local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailnargent@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailawarren7@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryC1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20150302-124831en
local.publisher.placeUnited Kingdomen
local.format.startpage119en
local.format.endpage138en
local.identifier.scopusid84921065407en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume30en
local.identifier.issue1en
local.contributor.lastnameLogueen
local.contributor.lastnameArgenten
local.contributor.lastnameWarrenen
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dc.identifier.staffune-id:awarren7en
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:17104en
local.identifier.handlehttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/16871en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleWipeout? The Gold Coast and Tweed surfboard manufacturing cluster and local economic developmenten
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.search.authorLogue, Daviden
local.search.authorArgent, Neilen
local.search.authorWarren, Andrewen
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.year.published2015en
local.subject.for2020440603 Economic geographyen
local.subject.seo2020280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studiesen
local.subject.seo2020280123 Expanding knowledge in human societyen
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